Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba was “critically ill” in a hospital’s heart attack unit on Saturday night after collapsing during a match at Tottenham that was subsequently abandoned.

The Zaire-born England under-21 international fell face-down to the pitch near the halfway line without any players near him.

Medics rushed onto the pitch with a defibrillator and treated the 23-year-old Muamba, pumping his chest for around six minutes of treatment before he was rushed to hospital.

“We’ve obviously been inundated with people wishing him well and we hope that if everybody can pray strongly tonight that Fabrice is able to recover,” Bolton manager Owen Coyle said. “It’s very serious. There’s no getting away from that. “

Muamba collapsed in the 41st minute of the FA Cup match. Tottenham players William Gallas and Louis Saha along with referee Howard Webb immediately beckoned for medical support as the quarterfinal was stopped.

After Muamba was carried off on a stretcher to applause from the crowd with an oxygen mask and with his chest still being pumped, all the players also left the pitch before Webb abandoned the match with it tied at 1-1.

More soccer

The San Diego Sockers completed a perfect season with their third championship trophy, defeating the host Cincinnati Kings 13-6 to claim their third straight U.S. Open Cup title. PASL MVP Kraig Chiles concluded a 53-goal season (counting all games) with another hat trick, while Brian Farber also scored three goals. The Sockers went 24-0 overall and ended the season on a 37-game winning streak.

•The Tijuana Xolos suffered their first loss in six games in Monterrey, as Tigres scratched out a 1-0 win.

•Davy Arnaud scored the first Major League Soccer goal in Impact history, and Montreal tied the Chicago Fire 1-1 before a record crowd of 58,912 at Olympic Stadium.

Winter sports

Lindsey Vonn set a women’s record for the most World Cup points in a season after finishing eighth in a slalom won by Austria’s Michaela Kirchgasser in Schladming, Austria. Vonn reached 1,980 points to beat the mark of 1,970 set by Janica Kostelic of Croatia in 2006. Vonn, the overall champion, needed 21 points in today’s giant slalom to also overtake Austrian great Hermann Maier’s 12-year-old record of 2,000 points.

•Marcel Hirscher of Austria won the overall World Cup title with a giant slalom victory.

Local colleges

The San Diego State men’s golf team won its third tournament in a 19-day span and Aztecs senior J.J. Spaun captured his second straight title as SDSU beat UNLV by only one stroke in the National Invitational Tournament in Tucson, Ariz. The 12th-ranked Aztecs shot 5-over in the final round, but scored 5-under for the tournament. Spaun carded 68 in the final round to finish 15-under overall and win by four shots.

•Host New Mexico scored nine runs over the second through fourth innings en route to an 11-2 baseball victory over San Diego State.

Boxing

Former WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez has been suspended by Puerto Rico boxing authorities after he accused a referee of betting on one of his fights. Puerto Rico’s Professional Boxing Commission is investigating the allegations against referee Roberto Ramirez, who stopped Lopez’s bout with Mexico’s Orlando Salido on March 10.

Et cetera

Caitlin Leverenz won the 200-yard breaststroke for her second individual title to lift Cal to its second straight NCAA women’s swimming and diving championship. ... Penn State won its second consecutive national wrestling title.